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Today I attempted to submit a kernel source tree into CVS and was surprised when I found out that the …/drivers/sound/core/ was missing. Luckily, the fix was to simply include the -I ! parameter like so:

cvs import -I ! kernel/ INITIAL start

This parameter prevents CVS from ignoring folders like core. Here’s an excerpt from the cvs man page:

-I name
Specify file names that should be ignored during import. You can use
this option repeatedly. To avoid ignoring any files at all (even
those ignored by default), specify `-I !'.

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